We recently shared the story of our total lack of content creation and social media engagement in 2013 and 2014, and the ensuing absence from the social media world our company experienced during this period. While we were busy enough that it was easy not to think about it, we also recognized that more and […]
Website Design and Web Marketing for Colorado Businesses
In point of fact, I’m not actually sure how we grew our followers at all during that period. While we all chuckled at the state of our social media enterprise, we did ponder how 6 new Twitter users had followed @coloradowebdsgn over the 18 month period, because we’d had zero social media engagement. No blog posts, […]
This may sound like a tongue-in-cheek proclamation, and indeed, I will poke a few holes in the website-building-nephew plan, but there is a very serious element to this post title, one that comes from real empathy for the wide spectrum of customers we’ve encountered, as well as a much-needed pragmatism when interacting with certain types […]
What to do, what to do? The following story really happened, and the names have been removed to protect the GUILTY! One of our partner agencies was running a remote virus scan on a Joomla-based website we were hosting for a mutual client. We arrived to work one day to see myriad breathless emails about […]
Say what we want about Adwords; for many businesses it is – and will remain – a vital part of their web marketing. For agencies managing client campaigns, you can swiftly become adept at using Adwords to generate traffic and leads, but for the d0-it-yourselfer with a new product or startup, the Adwords interface can […]
Hobby Horse Farms is a high-end stable and horse-training facility in Loveland, Colorado. Ken and Kathy Coulson are long-time amateur sportsman in sorting and penning events, as well as dressage competition. Beyond their own sports, the Coulsons breed and sell champion cow horses and dressage horses. With the breeding program comes many moving parts, from […]
In the 14 years our Fort Collins web design team have been building and hosting websites, nothing has come up more than the client’s desire to log in and edit the website content without having to hire someone each and every time something needed to be updated. In 2002, custom-made Content Management Systems (CMS) were legion. Every […]
OK, I will cop to creating an overly-provocative title for this post, as this topic gets me highly irritated. How’s this: statistics indicate that your web host is terrible. Is that better? No? Let me explain. Web hosting, as a topic, is treated as an after-thought by much of the developer/designer community. Here at Colorado Web design, […]
In the desire to try different things, or to accommodate client requests, we often get into less-than-ideal menu building techniques. Since top-level navigation menu links are highly-regarded by search engines, there is additional incentive to create unconventional link structures for the sake of search engines. However, this can be a mistake. Below are 6 common […]
Search engine ranking algorithms are growing ever more complex and nuanced in the way they evaluate and index content on the web. If you use search engines to find things online, then this is nothing but good news. However, for web marketers, with such a high demand for services that can help improve search ranking, […]
